by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Apr 18, 2011 | Author/Speaking Events, Authors, Children, Faith, Faith. Culture. The Arts Connection, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms, Parenting, Writing
On Friday, two friends from my Faith and Culture Writers Connection at Rolling Hills met me at McMenamins southeast Portland Bagdad Theater to see author Anne Lamott. I appreciate Anne’s thoughts on faith, culture and writing, though I do not always agree with...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 11, 2010 | Children, Community Service, Kids, Live the Questions, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach
By Cornelia Seigneur, Special to The Oregonian – Published in December 11, 2010 SW Weekly Oregonian Devin Wedin, Cedaroak Park Primary School fifth-grader Devin Wedin helped raise $1,662 for The Water Project by sponsoring a contest at his West Linn school:...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 18, 2010 | Children, Community, Community Service, Culture, Kids, Life, Live the Questions
Barry S. Childs of West Linn received the 2010 Purpose Prize for his work through Africa Bridge, a nonprofit organization he founded in 2000 to assist children orphaned by HIV/AIDS and other vulnerable children in rural Tanzania. Childs, along with nine other Purpose...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Sep 11, 2010 | Children, Culture, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting
So I am at the new yogurt shop called Yo Top It in West Linn on an outing with one of my 12-year-old twins, Wesley. I try to take each of my kids out individually, and with back to school here, I wanted to have this time with my seventh grader to talk. When we walk...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Sep 3, 2010 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2010, Adventures with Kids, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Moms, Parenting
For Week 10 and perhaps our final summer adventure with kids for 2010, we went local, to the Tualatin Hills Parks & Recreation Nature Park outside of Beaverton. We asked another mom and her son, who is the same age as my twins, to join us for this trek trying...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 27, 2010 | Adventure, Adventures with Kids, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Parenting
So, my youngest was having some days camping with his grand parents and my twins had said they have never been to Seattle. We were trying to find a place to go, an adventure, with just the twins and me. I was feeling a bit sad that summer is close to over and I...
